If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I’d like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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